culturakky constrained capacity to act
not free will
not always resistance

How doesAbu-Lughod historicize contextualize and encounter the ethnographic presnt

Impact of WW2 on Awlad Ali

Story telling as a meaningful rhetorical and social device

social commentary, indirect mode of address

Role of outsiders to the Bedouins

a source of trouble
a resource to compete over

Ethnocentric Fallacy \

the odea that our beliefs and behaviors are right and true and the beliefs and behaviors of othera are wrong and misguided

relativistic fallacy

it is impossible to make moral judgments on the beliefs and practices of others

Ethnography

immersion of investigatos in the lives of the people they are trying to understand, and through that experiencethe attainment of some level of understanding of the meaning people ascribe to their existence